The latest News and Information on Data Security including privacy, protection, and encryption.
We are excited to share that NC Protect for Microsoft 365 is now available in both Microsoft Azure Marketplace and Azure Government Marketplace! archTIS customers can now take advantage of the productive and trusted Azure cloud platform, with streamlined procurement, deployment and management of NC Protect for M365 from the Marketplaces.
Today, for enterprises and even SMB companies, IT is a sprawling but interconnected universe of applications, devices, and services all running in tandem to maintain the lifeblood of these organizations—data. Navigating the complexities of this arrangement is not just a challenge for security teams (something which Nightfall customers have attested to, before adopting our platform), it’s a genuine challenge for anyone who must manage and use information.
Missed last week’s archTIS Defense & DIB Cybersecurity Summit with leading industry and defense experts? Watch the recording for their insights on the zero trust, CMMC 2 and the new threats the industry is facing and how to best combat them.
Broadly speaking, an information security program is a set of activities and initiatives that support a company’s information technology while protecting the security of business data and enabling the company to accomplish its business objectives. An information security program safeguards the proprietary information of the business and its customers. The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) has a more specific definition of what a security information program should entail.
In early April, the tech industry witnessed a major GitHub security incident targeting GitHub organizations using Heroku and Travis CI. GitHub was made aware of this threat via an attack leveraging AWS API keys to GitHub’s own npm production infrastructure. As upstream security risks within SaaS platforms become more common, organizations that leverage these platforms are relying on tools like Nightfall to protect themselves.
The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) aims to protect consumer financial privacy with three provisions: the Financial Privacy Rule, the Safeguards Rule, and the Pretexting Provisions. In our previous post, we covered the GLBA Financial Privacy Rule and what financial institutions, as defined by the GLBA, need to know to be compliant.
Microsoft Teams is a fantastic collaboration tool allowing people to share data effortlessly within the same organization and even across organizations. Unfortunately, because it was built with collaboration as the primary driver, it can be easy to ‘overshare’ data you don’t want to share.
